by British Newspaper’s Shocking Revelation That 1.4 Billion People Constitute News
In what media analysts are calling “better late than never,” the Financial Times has published an article acknowledging that India, a nation of 1.4 billion people with the world’s fifth-largest economy, is in fact newsworthy and worthy of coverage beyond occasional stories about tech outsourcing and monsoon floods.
The groundbreaking piece, discovered by readers who navigate beyond the paper’s extensive Brexit coverage, reportedly contains information about India that Indian people have known for quite some time but will be surprising to British readers who thought the Raj never ended.
“We at the Financial Times have long prided ourselves on covering global markets,” explained fictional editor Nigel Worthington-Smythe while adjusting his monocle. “But it only recently occurred to us that ‘global’ might include that large democracy between Pakistan and Bangladesh that keeps launching space missions and building technology companies.”
According to sources at the newspaper, the editorial decision to cover India came after a junior reporter pointed out that India’s GDP has surpassed that of the United Kingdom, prompting what witnesses described as “an emergency meeting and several stiff drinks” among senior editors.
Dr. Priya Kapoor, Director of the Institute for Post-Colonial Media Studies, noted the article represents progress. “For centuries, British newspapers only wrote about India when discussing curry recipes or colonial nostalgia,” she explained. “Now they’re writing about India’s economy, which means they’ve graduated from thinking of it as a vacation destination to realizing it’s a major economic power. Only took them seventy-eight years.”
The article has been praised by Indian economists and criticized by British readers who preferred when international news coverage consisted primarily of stories about Europe and occasionally Japan.
At press time, the Financial Times was reportedly considering follow-up articles about other large countries they may have overlooked, including Indonesia, Brazil, and “possibly something in Africa.”
SOURCE: https://www.ft.com/content/74a0b4d3-fec8-4961-99a6-85a995cccf46
SOURCE: Bohiney.com (Radhika Vaz)
